Glancing out your window, you notice a woman in a blue coat walking with a child in a red coat. Later, you recall seeing a child in a blue coat. You have fallen victim to the phenomenon known as ______.

a. the Stroop effect
b. illusory conjunction
c. automatic processing
d. the bottleneck effect


b. illusory conjunction

Psychology

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Maslow's work on self-actualization began as an attempt to understand the personalities of:

a. psychoanalytic pioneers Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. b. statistician Raymond Cattell and author and mathematician Lewis Carrol. c. anthropologist Ruth Benedict and the Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer. d. psychotherapist Carl Jung and scientist B. F. Skinner.

Psychology

In a normal curve, the proportion of the area under the curve between two scores represents

a. the frequency of the lower score. b. the relative frequency of the lower score. c. the relative frequency of all scores between the two scores. d. the relative frequency of all scores below the upper score.

Psychology

Hormones do not affect gender-based behaviors

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

Easy temperament children would be characterized as

a. being restrained and unexpressive. b. being relaxed and agreeable. c. being moody and intense. d. tending to overreact to stimulation.

Psychology